Olympic Participation Badges - A Collectors Guide Start Price USD 49.00 Current Price USD 49.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, July 01, 2008 End Time Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Location Goteborg, Sweden See more about 'Olympic Participation Badges - A Collectors Guide' Description   OFFICIAL OLYMPIC PARTICIPANT BADGES A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE BY HANS ELBEL Author: Hans Elbel Binding Type: Spiral Bound - Soft Cover Publication Year: 2008 Number of Pages: 260 Language: English Color Photos: 400+ Color Illustrations: 600+ Size: 21x15 cm (A5) The most complete guidebook to Olympic participant badges. The first 80 years of the modern Olympic Games saw participants wearing badges that often were made of bronze or brass. Some were gilded or silver-plated and often with enamel detail. Some of the badges had ribbons; others were numerically marked on the front or back and most of them showed the participants roll via the use of different colours and explanatory text. The badges were used from the first Olympic Games in 1896 until 1984 when modern bar-coded, photo-identity cards have replaced them. " Your beautiful book has been long awaited by all Olympic badge collectors ! It is fabulous that it illustrates so many badges and varieties, all in color, and it will really help collectors with identifying and organizing collections. I highly recommend it to every Olympic badge collector !" - Ingrid O'Neil, Olympic Memorabilia Auctioneer. " A treasure trove for collectors of Olympic badges. Everyone should have one." - Ulf Ström, Olympic Memorabilia Auctioneer. You will find photos, illustrations and information of nearly all the badges made between 1896 and 1984: Payment: PayPal Shipping: 1 book: $13.50 2 books: $27.00 7-15 books: $90.00     Place a Bid!